Exciting new show Protest, for young audiences from acclaimed playwright Hannah Lavery, which will be coming to south London next month.
Following highly successful runs in Newcastle and Edinburgh last year, Natalie Ibu’s acclaimed production of Lavery’s new play Protest is heading back out on tour in early 2024, and it’s making a week-long stop in Brixton!
Protest follows Alice, Jade and Chloe. Running is Alice’s happy place – you might even say it’s in her DNA. She’s the best runner at her school but is struggling to prove her worth.
Jade is slowly coming to realise that prejudices can be found everywhere, even in the most surprising places. Realising that her education is ill-equipped to encompass her own history and heritage, and taunted by bullies at school, she knows it’s time to tell her own story.
Meanwhile, litter is piling up in the local forest, and all over the world an environmental crisis is looming. Chloe is determined to make a change, starting with the town. The three girls prepare to stand up for what they believe in despite the injustices stacked against them.
The play was acclaimed in its initial run by The Guardian (****) as “a stirring drama of waking up to injustice and trying to right it”, and by The Stage (****) as “sharply written and packed with youthful promise”.
Kirsty MacLaren (The Crown, The Boys in the Boat) will play the role of Alice, Harmony Rose-Bremner (Fifteen-Love, Hamnet) will play the role of Jade and Amy Murphy (Holby City, Blood Brothers) will play the role of Chloe.
Protest comes to Brixton House from 13-16 February.
More information about the show can be found here.
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